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UK - Candover loses interest in ALcontrol restructuring
Laboratory testing company ALcontrol, backed by beleaguered private equity firm Candover, has agreed to a restructuring deal with its lenders that will see Blackstone's GSO Capital Partners take a majority stake in the business.
UK - Quinn Partnership appoints senior project coordinator
Due diligence provider The Quinn Partnership has hired Samantha Kenny as senior project coordinator to its project team.
UK - DN appoints principal
Media and technology-focused investor DN Capital has hired Tom Bradley as principal to the firm.
UK - LCA invests £1.5m into Proven Energy
Low Carbon Acceleratior (LCA) has further invested into small-scale wind turbine manufacturer Proven Energy, in a funding round worth ТЃ1.5m.
ITALY - Ambienta reaches final close at EUR 218m
Specialised environmental investor Ambienta has reached the final close of its inaugural fund, Ambient I, on a shade under EUR 218m.
AUSTRIA - AXA acquires Competence Call Center
AXA Private Equity has acquired a majority stake of around two-thirds in Austrian telemarketing company Competence Call Center for an undisclosed sum.
UK - Inflexion boosts origination team with new hire
Mid-market investor Inflexion Private Equity has hired Angela Galbraith as origination executive.
GERMANY – HRE squeeze-out formalised; Flowers loses stake
JC Flowers lost its stake in ailing Hypo Real Estate bank when the bank's majority owner, government fund Soffin finalised the squeeze-out of the remaining minority investors at yesterday's general meeting.
UK - Atlas and Novartis invest into Bicycle Therapeutics
Atlas Venture and Novartis Venture Fund have invested an undisclosed amount of seed funding into biotherapeutics start-up Bicycle Therapeutics.
FRANCE - AXA PE could still bid for Areva T&D
According to reports, AXA Private Equity could still enter the race for Areva T&D, Areva's power distribution unit, despite having previously withdrawn interest after a member of its consortium pulled out.
GERMANY – Perusa acquires GRV LUTHE
German private equity house Perusa Partners has acquired disposal services company GRV LUTHE Kampfmittelbeseitigung GmbH from Turn Around Investments GmbH and GRV's management.
GERMANY/US – Riverside continues buy-and-build for Sage Holdings
The Riverside Company has acquired Chapter 11 advisory specialist Donlin, Recano & Company Inc from founders Louis Recano and Carole Donlin. The company will be added to corporate communications platform Sage Holdings, which is based in Germany and the...
AUSTRIA - Deutsche Beteiligungs sells MCE
German private equity house Deutsche Beteiligungs AG has sold its entire stake in industrial service group MCE to trade buyer Bilfinger Berger AG in a deal valuing the company at EUR 350m.
UK - Amadeus Capital invests in Linkdex
Amadeus Capital Partners, via its Amadeus Seed Fund and Amadeus III vehicle, has invested EUR650,000 into software company Linkdex.
FRANCE - 3i cedes position in Cair
3i has ceded its 34% stake in Groupe Cair to Creadev, an investment company owned by the Mulliez Family. The divestment was made through Creadev's acquisition of Groupe Cair's main subsidiary Homeperf, a home care company. Following 3i's exit, Groupe...
FRANCE - 21 Centrale sees Arjowiggins Security deal cancelled
Paper manufacturing group Sequana has broken off negotiations with French buyout house 21 Centrale Partners regarding the sale of Arjowiggins Security, a division of Sequana's fine-paper subsidiary Arjowiggins, and taken the company off the market.
ITALY - Xenon surpasses EUR 130m target for latest fund
Italian lower mid-market buyout firm Xenon Private Equity has reached the final close of Xenon V at EUR 150m (hard cap) above the EUR 130m target.
CZECH - TA spends $200m on Czech security
TA Associates has paid more than $200m to acquire a minority stake in Czech computer security software firm AVG Technologies from incumbent private equity backers including Enterprise Investors.
GERMANY - Directorbank opens in Germany
Private equity recruitment specialist Directorbank has opened an office in Frankfurt, and appointed Dorothea Kronenberghs as European account director.
UK - Crowell & Moring bolsters corporate team with new hire
Law firm Crowell & Moring has hired Joel Wheeler as a partner in the firm's corporate group in London.
GERMANY - Gilde Healthcare Partners co-leads EUR 7m mtm funding
Gilde Healthcare Partners has co-led a EUR 7m investment for diagnostics company mtm Laboratories, in an extension to the business' series-C funding round.
DENMARK - Danske Kapitalanlæg sells M&J Industries
Danish small-cap buyout house Danske Kapitalanlæg has divested waste recycling equipment and services business M&J Industries in a trade sale to listed Finnish company Metso, a supplier of sustainable technology and services.
GERMANY - Hauck & Aufhäuser appoints head of debt advisory
Hauck & Aufhäuser has appointed Robert Graf von Finckenstein as head of debt advisory restructuring.
GERMANY - IBB et al. invests in intransID GmbH
IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Sonne+Wind Beteiligungen and KfW have jointly invested in sensor systems company intransID GmbH.